Word: nearly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...College. Quincy House did agree last week to a one-year test run, and three other Houses--Winthrop, Cabot and Dunster--are said to be considering joining in. But all this "progress" is on a trial basis, and leaves eight Houses with no improvement at all in the near future. So here, in the vain hope that a House master or two might be reading, is one final effort to convey the blunt truth: the fact that a Harvard ID card does not allow a Harvard undergraduate access to other Harvard undergraduate Houses is probably the least rational, most infuriating...
Fear not: the market has responded, offering a choice of dozens of new books available at a bookstore or library near you. Even Dr. Spock updated his book just before he died, adding advice on such topics as open adoption, computers and divorce...
...first shave. It didn't help that what Harry had shaved was his head. It seems the young Prince enlisted some chums to help him achieve the close-cropped hairstyle of his soccer hero Michael Owen. Alas, his classmates proved to be sub-par stylists, and a barber near Harry's boarding school was called upon to salvage the operation, relieving the Prince of his remaining mane. When the Mirror learned of the botched job, it ran a computer-generated picture of what Harry might look like hairless. Objecting to an "intrusion" into his sons' lives, Charles expressed his intention...
...this is water, whose conspicuous display and consumption is as important a sign of luxury, of control over Nature, to Vegas entrepreneurs as it was to the Umayyad caliphs who began building the fountains of the Alhambra on a dry hillside near Granada 12 centuries ago. Nobody grasps this better than Wynn. To install performing dolphins in huge saltwater tanks in a hotel in the Nevada desert seems, on the face of it, about as rational as filling a cruise ship with sand and camels, but it has its own value as spectacle. And nowhere in Vegas is water...
...Near the end of the market's five-day run, the lobby of the Angelika Film Center was still aswarm with writer-producer-directors passing out handbills, waving placards, showing trailers on handheld DVD players, almost literally collaring people to see their films. It was marketing as hand-to-hand combat, an uneasily direct communion between filmmaker and potential audience member. The pitches: a blaxploitation parody starring a white guy! An ex-cop grandma wages war on her grandson's kidnappers! A lost relic with aphrodisiacal powers--Jesus' foreskin--turns up in Manhattan! "Pringles financed my movie," a commercial actor...